Art & Architecture

Renata PoltArchive On a long-ago birthday, a friend gave me a washcloth embroidered with the monogram “YSL.” It was a nice washcloth, but I was puzzled: “Why did you give me a Young Socialist League washcloth?” I asked. Today, ...

Arthur LazereArchive Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War through the Cultural Revolution, 1840-1979 Li Keran (1907-1989) Apricot and Spring South of the Yangzi undated, hanging scroll, ink and ...

Arthur LazereArchive Retrospective exhibitions of the work of an artist are enormously valuable to the interested gallery-goer. You could wander the art museums and galleries of the world for years, seeing an artist's work - one piece here, a piece or ...

Arthur LazereArchive Sandra Phillips, curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has once again mounted a noteworthy exhibit, this time the first survey of the work of William Gedney (1932-1989). Gedney, while not an unknown - he ...

Arthur LazereArchive While contemporary American painting seems rather mired down in recent years, in a directionless, fragmented period more market oriented than aesthetically productive, the world of contemporary crafts, in contrast, is flourishing with master artists growing, exploring, and, with unprecedented ...

Renata PoltArchive Should you choose to approach Venices Collezione Peggy Guggenheim by gondolathe Peggy Guggenheim museum, is located, like so much else in Venice, on the Grand Canalthe first work of art you would see would be Marino Marinis 1948 sculpture, ...

Archive At the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art through March 10, 2007 is a solo exhibition of works by Vidya Gastaldon, entitled, “Stop Believing, Start Knowing.” The title alludes to something one discovers on the journey through her world, that there ...

Arthur LazereArchive An exhibit of more than eighty works in a variety of media consisting almost entirely of self-portraits - one is hard-pressed to name another contemporary artist so caught up in his own image. And the portraits, spanning nearly four ...

Arthur LazereArchive John Edwards, Francis Bacon's close friend for sixteen years until Bacon's death in 1992, has donated the contents of Bacon's London studio to the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin. The acquisition of this treasure trove ...

Arthur LazereArchive The Gemaldegallerie is Berlin's repository for old master paintings and it is a treasure house of the history of European art, offering up a wealth of visual riches. The collections had been divided between East and West for a ...